TWO members of a Mallorca robbery gang have been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Palma and Barcelona, with a third person still at large. The group were described as ‘dangerous’ with their crimes including the theft of a Rolex watch valued at €10,000 from a man in his seventies who was walking on Palma’s […]
MALLORCA council has launched an aid plan to help younger people looking to start an independent life away from their family home. A €1 million budget has been allocated to the Island Youth Service aimed at cutting the economic pressure on younger people, especially when it comes to renting or buying a property. Residents aged
Airlines are planning for 30 million passengers to visit Mallorca this summer, with capacity on their planes expected to bulge by 10% during the peak months of the season. They have requested 30.8 million seats between the end of March and the end of October, breaking the pre-Covid high water market in 2019 by a
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TWO Mallorca robbers have been jailed for 14 years after staging four hold-ups in less than a day in April 2022. The men- with a previous criminal record for similar crimes- struck in Santa Maria, Llubi, and Palma. Lawyers acting for the Spaniards filed an appeal against the sentences originally handed down by a lower
A 3.1 magnitude earthquake has rumbled Granada province. According to Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN) the quake—with its epicentre located in the town of Santa Cruz del Comercio—was registered yesterday morning, February 22. As reported on the IGN website, this latest earthquake was recorded at 4:32am at a depth of seven kilometres. The earthquake was
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EMERGENCY services in Gibraltar locked down Rosia Bay after someone called in to report a ‘suspicious box with wires’ floating in the water. It followed an anonymous caller who rang in to report the object in the water, thinking it might be a bomb. The call to the Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) control room prompted
FOUR Iberian lynxes have been released into the wild in the Sierra Arana region of the Andalucian province of Granada as part of a breeding program aimed at conserving the endangered species. The four wild felines, Trevelez and Tenebrio, two male Iberian lynxes and Tai and Tali, two females, were released into the wild last
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SPANISH border police need to stamp people crossing the Gibraltar frontier into Spain if they are they are then catching a flight elsewhere, authorities warned. The Borders and Coastguard Agency was responding to reports that National Police officers were stamping residents’ passports at the frontier last weekend. A Gibraltar government spokesperson said this ‘appears to
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SOCIAL RIGHTS Minister Ione Belarra has laughed off accusations that the Spanish government is ‘decriminalising bestiality’. The leader of the leftist Podemos party said during an interview with YouTuber Rubén Hood that she was ‘laughing so as not to cry, but the truth is that it’s a very serious issue’. The hoax began to do
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